The attacks on US market provision of high-quality programming by defenders of the BBC, exemplified by Steve Barnett's response to David Graham's Adam Smith Institute paper, are misguided and misleading. Despite differences between the US and UK, we still have much to learn from US TV, argues Davi
The UK has been admonished by the Council of Europe for denial of voting rights to prisoners - an issue that looks set to divide the Coalition government.
The Liberal Democrats must fight to salvage their promise to end the detention of children for immigration purposes in the UK.
Is the British government talking to dissident republicans?
In memory of Lord Bingham, the eminent judge and jurist who died of cancer this weekend at the age of 76, OurKingdom re-publishes his authoritative speech to the Convention on Modern Liberty, delivered in February of last year.
Amidst all the discussion of Tony Blair's legacy in the Labour leadership election, one important question has been over-looked: how did Blair, the advocate of a communitarian politics become Blair the fanatical advocate of merciless market liberalisation?
The Green Party Conference has just overwhelmingly passed my and London's Green MEP Jean Lambert's AV motion, thus committing us to backing AV in the referendum
Iraq remains a defining issue of political trust and democracy. The leading candidate in Labour's election has failed to this test.
Caroline Lucas MP had prepared a speech for the Second Reading debate on the Parliamentary Voting and Constituencies Bill, but was not called by the Speaker to give it. Here, with Caroline's permission, OurKingdom publishes the speech she would have delivered calling for a proportional option and
The cancellation by Tony Blair of several events on his book tour this week due to fears of disruption by anti-war protesters has led to a misplaced concern in some quarters over the former Prime Minister’s “free speech”.
In an important new pamphlet, seeking to persuade his party of the need to fight for reform in the forthcoming referendum on AV, Neal Lawson, chair of Compass, sets out why democracy should matter to Labour. Lawson argues that empowering the collective voice of the people will help achieve Labour'
It is one thing to offer the country a compromise, but the way Britain's Coalition government is going about reform is itself compromised as gruesomely displayed in the demoralising Commons debate on the AV referendum
